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White Sox actually win back-to-back games
It's been a long time since the White Sox have experienced something like this. It's called, in case they forgot, winning back-to-back games.
The Sox beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Monday night and then won 6-1 Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, giving them their first two-game winning streak since May 21-22.
"That's great. I think it's a great feeling," Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. "I told a couple of guys, 'I've started getting used to winning now.' It's a great feeling after the tough two months we went through. We're fighting with our results; now we start getting a little things better.
"Hopefully this thing is the beginning of a good summer."
With the back-to-back wins, the Sox gained two games in two days on the American League Central leaders - in this case, the Detroit Tigers - for the first time this season.
"We've won two games in a row. It's been a long time since we could say that," catcher A.J. Pierzynski said of the Sox, who had lost 22 of 27 before coming to Tampa Bay.
There is even talk around the clubhouse that if the Sox go on a roll, perhaps the changes that general manager Ken Williams promised will be aborted.
"I hope they start playing better and we can keep this group together, make a little run and make this thing exciting," Guillen said.
There was little excitement for the Devil Rays on Tuesday night as Sox starter Jon Garland (5-5) kept them in check from the get-go.
The right-hander allowed just one run - Greg Norton's homer in the fifth - in seven innings.
"Some key pitches in big situations," said Garland, who gave up five hits. "I worked off their aggressiveness a little bit, and some big double plays there at the end of the game were huge."
Garland's biggest pitch didn't induce a double play. It was a third strike that Akinori Iwamura whiffed on to end a bases-loaded threat in the seventh.
"(Garland) had velocity back tonight, which he hadn't had his last couple," Pierzynski said. "His velocity was back to 92, 93 (mph). It had been down a little bit. He had a good changeup, a good little slider and moved the ball around."
While Garland dealt on the mound, Andy Gonzalez continued to be the hottest bat for the Sox.
Juan Uribe led off the third with a triple - the first Sox three-bagger since April 27 - and came in on Gonzalez's groundout.
In the fifth, after back-to-back singles and a throwing error by pitcher James Shields (6-3) gave the Sox another run, Gonzalez hit his first career homer - a two-run shot the opposite way that made it 4-0. The home run gave the utility player five hits and five RBI in the last two games.
So, how does it feel to carry the offense?
"I don't think I'm carrying the team," he replied. "I just got to get on base for the big boys and it's working."
"Right now, he's taking advantage of the situation," Guillen said. "Putting him in there, he's giving me good at-bats and keeping himself in the lineup."
Jim Thome followed Gonzalez's homer with a solo shot - just the third time the Sox have hit back-to-back homers this year.
Matt Thornton closed out the game with two scoreless innings, bringing the bullpen's streak to seven straight scoreless frames.
"We just have to find a way to win and get back on a positive note," Pierzynski said, "so all these people will stop talking about how bad we are on TV."
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(The other bookend from my break begun here.)
Interior – A STUDIO is a hive of activity. Stats, plug-ins, links scroll over large HD monitors mounted on the walls. Several ENGINEERS fiddle with switches and slides on their starship-like consoles.
A TECH moves to a microphone
Tech: Sibilance. Sibilance. Check. One two three. Sibilance
Engineer: Hold on Tommy. George! Check out the cabling on mic 1. Something ain't right.
GEORGE picks a cable off the floor and traces it thorugh it's connections. He stops, unplugs and reseats a connection, giving a thumbs up to the engineer.
Engineer: K, try it again.
Tech: Sibilance. Sibilance. One two three.
Engineer: Sounds good. Where's Guap?
George: In his dressing room, I think.
All heads turn to the dressing room door. It flings outward, a terrified INTERN rushing from the room.
EL GUAPO exits, resplendent in a freshly ironed Hawaiian shirt, of the finest polyester, his boats shoes scuffed and bent in the way only the most comfortable shoes become.
El Guapo: I said halfcafdoublespresstriplefrappvanillachino with skim milk. THIS IS ONE PERCENT!!!
He hurls the offending cup where it splatters iridescently against the wall.
Engineer: Uh, Guap…we gotta record the blog promo. WordPress expects us back on the air soon.
El Guapo: Effin corporate overlords.
He strides to the mic. Pausing only to slick back his hair and adjust his imitation plastic Ray Bans, he begins speaking as Today's Music swells on the speakers behind him
"Hi there! Remember me? Well, I'm back! Nanny nanny boo boo!"
Dude, this makes you look like a pezhead. You're an idiot, not a pezhead.
Seriously dude. Redo it.
EXTERIOR – a rundown roadside inn at night, in the rain. A flash of night shows us several horses hitched to the railing post in front as the camera moves through the swinging door to the INTERIOR. The patrons cower in a corner. three outlaws watch the crowd over the barrels of their guns.
their LEADER paces back an forth in front of them.
Leader: I don't understand this misplaced affection you have for him. He abandoned you. How can you defend him now?
Patron: He didn't abandon us. He just took a short break.
Leader (scoffing) Just tell us where he is.
A sound comes from the bar. The leader and his men whirl. There sits EL GUAPO, his brown leather outback hat dripping rain water, a tall glass of tequila in front of him.
El Guapo: This blog ain't big enough for the both of us, Overlord.
He stands up.
The LEADER faces him.
Leader: Ok then. *his hand moves toward his holster* POST!
A flash of light and noise, bits blazing across the ether. El Guapo holds up his tablet and presses Post.
Leader's hand clutches his chest and he falls to the floor
Leader: Always knew the…Poetry Slam…would…get me…
Leader dies.
Patron: You've saved us!
Comely Buxom Patron:How about a naked bar dance, Guap?
El Guapo turns to the camera and waggles his eyebrows.
Waggles his eyebrows? Dude, this is even worse. You're gonna lose followers.
Yeah yeah, just do it again.And be straight with em.
INTERIOR – El Guapo sits back, laptop in…well…his lap. He types the following and posts.
I'm back! Still fighting the corporate overlords, but it's too much fun here to stay away. See y'all later this week, and the first round's on me.

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A post HERE yesterday mocking Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz for his weird interpretations of the U.S. Constitution didn't sit well with some of our right-wing readers.
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Skeleton of England's Richard III found under parking lot
- Skeleton was buried under a parking lot
- Richard III was England%27s last Plantagenet king
- Remains will be reburied in Leicester Cathedral
LEICESTER, England -- It took five centuries but the mystery over what happened to the remains of England's last Plantagenet king, Richard III, is finally solved after scientists at the University of Leicester confirmed a skeleton buried under a city parking lot is the much maligned king vilified by Shakespeare.
Monday's announcement brings to a close the long-debated question of what followed the killing of Richard III on the battlefield 528 years ago. Further tests on the skeleton that suggest that accounts of his withered arm are inaccurate may help to restore his reputation, historians say.
"This is a historic moment and the history books will be rewritten," said Philippa Langley, originator of the search and a member of the Richard III Society. "We have searched for Richard and found him – now it is now time to honor him."
The remains will be reburied in Leicester Cathedral.
The skeleton was found in September in a University of Leicester dig on the site of a medieval church, Grey Friars, now a parking lot for a social services office. It had what was thought to be a metal arrow in its back – in fact, more likely to be a Roman nail -- and head injuries. Both are consistent with records of how Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. It also had a curved spine, fitting with reports that one of Richard III's shoulders was higher than the other.
Over the past four months, the remains have been subjected to a series of tests, including a computed–tomography (CT) scan and radio carbon dating. Specialists in medieval battles and weaponry advised on the kinds of instruments that may have caused the damage to the skull.
Scientists carried out tests on DNA from the remains, comparing it with a sample from Canadian furniture-maker Michael Ibsen, 55, now confirmed along with his siblings as the 17th-generation descendant of Richard III's sister, Anne of York.
Ibsen said he was stunned when he heard the news yesterday. "I'm still trying to digest it. I've been aware of the on-going tests but I never thought there would be an almost perfect match with the DNA," he said.
A number of other men identified as descendants of Richard's great-great-grandfather, Edward III, through his son John of Gaunt – who both would share the same Y chromosome as Richard III -- also donated DNA to the project to confirm the male line.
The analysis of the male line is still in its early stages but Turi King, a University of Leicester geneticist, hopes it will provide a complete picture on both lines of descent.
"The DNA sequence obtained from the Grey Friars skeletal remains was compared with the two maternal line relatives of Richard III – we were very excited to find that there is a DNA match between the maternal DNA from the family of Richard III and the skeletal remains at the Grey Friars dig," King said.
Skeletal analysis carried out by Jo Appleby, an osteoarcheologist at the university, showed that the individual was male and in his late 20s to late 30s. Richard III was 32 when he was killed. Trauma to the skeleton shows cause of death was the result of one or two wounds to the back of the skull that could have been made by a sword or halberd, a type of ax. This is consistent with accounts of Richard being killed after receiving a blow to the back of his head. The skeleton also showed a number of non-fatal injuries – to the head, rib and one to the pelvis believed to be from a wound through the right buttock -- which Appleby says may have been inflicted as humiliation after death.
"The skeleton has a number of unusual features: its slender build, the scoliosis and the battle-related trauma," she said. "All these are highly consistent with the information that we have about Richard III in life and about the circumstances of his death. Taken as a whole, the skeletal evidence provides a highly convincing case for identification as Richard III."
Richard III reigned for two years until his death at Bosworth, the last major battle of the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses fought on and off from 1455. The last English king to be killed in battle, Richard's death brought about the end of three centuries of Plantagenet rule and ushered in the Tudors -- starting with Henry VII and including Henry the VIII -- who reigned for the next 117 years.
Although Richard remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of his nephews -- the princes in the tower who vanished after their uncle assumed the throne -- many academics and historians hope the positive identification will go some way to restoring Richard's reputation.
Modern views of the medieval king have been heavily influenced by William Shakespeare's portrayal of him in the play Richard III, historians say.
Shakespeare shows Richard as a power-hungry, Machiavellian scoundrel who goes around murdering anyone who stands in the way of his ascent to power. He depicts him as having a withered arm but the new scientific evidence discredits this description as both of the skeleton's arms are the same length.
Langley said Richard III was a progressive leader who pioneered a system of bail for those arrested, the legal principles of presumption of innocence until proven guilty and blind justice, and that he introduced books to England.
"It's ironic that he is guilty until proven innocent of the disappearance of the princes even though there is no evidence against him," she said.
She said the "winds of change are blowing" on his reputation and pledged to seek out the truth.
"The two-dimensional caricature promoted by the Tudors will be no more," she said.
Ibsen hopes the identification of his royal predecessor will stimulate people to take a wider interest in Richard III, and not just of his short reign. "I hope it will lead to a broader evaluation of his life as a whole," he said.
Jack Douglass, 19, a history student at the University of Leicester, said he was thrilled by the discovery
"It's all incredibly exciting," he said. "People tend to think of Richard III in black and white but one of the best things is that it will open up the debate around him and now people in the real world will start to talk about him, not just academics."
At the entrance to the unassuming parking lot below which the skeleton was discovered, passersby stop and crane their necks to get a better view of the trench that was Richard's resting place until four months ago.
Anthony McBride, 64, standing with his hands shoved into his pockets against the cold, was pleased to know that the remains were the king's.
"Nottingham has Robin Hood but he's just a myth," he said. "We have the real thing. A real king who died bravely in battle, let down by the people he trusted. It would have been so different if he'd won, that horrible Henry VIII wouldn't have come to power."


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Ghandi fukks your mother
Hindoos raype their daughters to celebrate hinduism
8:45 u su ck my ass..hole then u drink the brown juice.
8:47 I wipe my ass with your holy book.
Hinduism is a disgusting cult. Even to this day cross-cousin, father-daughter, mother-son, brother-sister, doing each other is common practice. Let me make it easy for you and refer you to the hindu scriptures and share it with the world. Shame on Hindus and barbaric Hinduism.
Pushan is the lover of his sister [ Rg Ved VI.55.4 ][ Apte 11 ]
The Ashvisns married Surya and Savitri who is their sister [ RV I.116.19 ].
Agni is the son of his father and his sister [ Rg Ved.I.91.7 ]
I smear SH IT all over your temple.
I defecate on your face.
Your mother is a bad Muslim Islamic W.H.O.R.E.
I just p issed on hindoo in India.
8:49 u drink monkey u rine and eat SH IT
Most of hindoo women in Arab countries are sukking moslem dikks.
8:51 I just defecated on your house of prayer.
Eat SH IT...
Modi sukks moslem big dikk
Fukk Durga Maa
8:51 eat my di ck
Bi ch
Raype Kaali Maa
8:54 sukkk my ass
Lord Shiva raiped Lakhsmi Maa
8:54 eat Paki people poop
Lord Ganesha sukks donkey dikk
I just took a schit on hindoo mandir and P.I.SSED on Lord Shiva's face.
Lord Shiva fu cks your mother
8:55 Lmfao
Eat caca
Lord Ganesha was just fukked by Bubba's big long dikk up his azz.
A billy goat just climbed up Lord Shiva's azz and butt fukked him.
Eric Holder is an uncle Tom.
Pete Carroll sukks.. he lost the game and cost me $20.
Bi ch.
You have 20? Aren't you hindoos starving in India? Yup
Obama is smart. He thinks before he acts.
Unlike tard gwbush
Mother f ukker Modi just got his rectum fukked by Charlie Manson.
Hi there banasy. Guess what. I just saw Thackeray and Modi sukking on a donkey's dikk on Viceroy Road, Kerala.
Which construction project was the largest in human history.
A,) The Great Pyramids of Egypt
B,) The Great Wall of China
C,) DHS forced labor camps of USA
If you guessed C you are correct. But you had to guess because you are an ignorant American.
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As the tradition dictates, every year on this day we like to scare the living crap out of each other. One common way of doing it is to pick a random, small animal, and pretend that it is somehow dangerous or deadly. The top of this list of innocent victims is usually occupied by bats, spiders, cockroaches, or pretty much anything that is way too small to do us any harm. Unfortunately, the stereotypes hammered into everybody's head on Halloween stay with us much longer than just one day, and the poor creatures suffer the undeserved bad reputation for the entire year.
But the really scary, dangerous animals are those that nobody suspects of being evil, and none more so than the creepy Giant panda. Sure, they look cute. But under the cuddly exterior hides a vicious, mean monster. My friend Corey, who used to work in the Panda Base in Chengdu, China, told me about about one particularly nasty, psychotic individual who used to attack people all the time, completely unprovoked. In fact, panda attacks are quite common, and there is even a blog devoted to this topic ("When Pandas Attack"). While in China I heard stories of people being killed by these vicious animals. In any case, I would rather be assaulted by a cockroach or run across a bat or a spider while walking alone in the forest, then meet one of these giant, black and white monsters. I know that they try to appear sweet by hiding their beady eyes in black patches of fur, but they are not fooling me!


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Lu 1:19* And the angel answered and said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God; and I have been sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
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Historically speaking, marketing and UX have been either somewhat at odds or simply unconcerned with each other. At the risk of oversimplifying, it might be said that marketing is generally concerned with things like new customer acquisition, reach and frequency, and producing stickiness. UX practitioners, on the other hand, have been concerned with things like adoptability, usability, and transparency. But the separation of marketing and UX is in the process of changing.
Marketing organizations are beginning to shift their focus to include a new emphasis on customer experience (CX) as they realize that reach and frequency strategies are not working as they used to. Simply said, in order to be effective these days, marketing needs to be in the business of helping consumers and adapting to customer needs while also executing smart outreach strategies. Talking to prospects with the right message at the right time and the right place (as good marketers have always known to do) is just not enough anymore. Marketing now needs to offer prospects or customers smart and dynamic tools that help them in their decision-making.
As Dave Stubbs of Teehan+Lax has written, "In the past we were incentivized to create ads and microsites that would launch onto the Internet, exist for a while and then disappear. In the future, we will create programs and 'things' that solve consumer problems…" Vidya Drego of Forrester Research has also written a great paper on the topic.
With all of this in mind, it's important to examine how UX and marketing can collaborate to build the next generation of customer engagement.
From a marketing perspective, a whole lot of a company's customer interactions are staked in digital touchpoints. This makes it important that UX professionals be recruited to help shape customer interaction models from the very outset of product development, rather than brought in as an after-thought after a product is built to try, too late, to make it more user friendly. Through its user-centric approach, UX is especially well suited to help marketing shape a more comprehensive and brand-cohesive view of their prospect and customer interactions.
From a UX perspective, branding is an increasingly important consideration these days. This is a result of both the growing digital bandwidth and the fact that new experiences focused on persuasion or selling are now integrated into the digital tools themselves. Think mobile apps and tools like the Nike+ runner application or Ozarka's water delivery website. As a result, the UX perspective has broadened to include new types of experiences that are less process-driven and more advertising-driven. UX designers must contend with more messaging that increases cognitive load, and they must work in an area that's typically been the bastion of marketing communications.
One way to describe this shift is that the interests of marketing and UX are merging into a new approach to customer relations. That outlook is pretty exciting. So many customer experiences will improve when marketing and UX get together to craft tools that give consumers the power to shape more mutually beneficial relationships with the brands, products, and services they choose.
But for this collaboration to be effective, a third ingredient is required: IT. And that's where things threaten to unravel. What good does it do if marketing and UX can put their heads together to design exemplary customer experiences only to find out they cannot be implemented? This isn't due to problems inherent to IT, but more because of the problematic dynamics of marketing and IT's relationship. In a nutshell, marketing (as well as UX, although to a lesser extent) have been guilty of tech phobia. But to be fair, IT has given marketing and UX plenty of good reasons to distrust technology.
Some of us are familiar with the historic battles between interaction design's and engineers' implementation plans. Well thought-out designs have been thrown out because the software platform "can't do that." Marketing has had similar struggles with IT when trying to gather dynamic customer data or automate its processes. IT has been so overburdened with support and maintenance that being asked to implement new features is more than they can handle, especially if those new features could present a threat to their systems' stability.<
Scott Brinker of Ion Interactive expands on this issue in his blog post, Why IT and marketing are diametrically opposed.
On the bright side, increasing numbers of a new breed of technologists are joining the ranks in IT departments. These new technologists arrive in IT already knowledgeable about CX and marketing. They come from much more flexible programming environments, and have evolved through the age of the Internet and open-source platforms. They understand the importance of the customer experience, and are very engaged with it once they know they're involved in a meaningful customer experience effort. In fact, some of these technologists have actually been the originators of better UX in organizations where marketing had only paid lip service to the issue.
The other positive angle to consider—and really this is where everything hinges—is if marketing is able to successfully collaborate with UX, they will acquire the vision and experience they need to help them generate and own the clear and executable types of technology plans that are key to success.
So, to wrap up:
- Marketing needs to start integrating UX design processes into a holistic view of digital (and beyond) customer interactions.
- UX practitioners need to acquire a better understanding of marketing's priorities and brand management practices.
- Once allied into a potent force, marketing and UX can engage in the kind of research that leads to the development of clear and executable technology plans and, as a result, engage IT as an enthusiastic partner.


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Wolf Blitzer is taking over the RidicuList for a night to get revenge for Anderson Cooper's shots at his new glasses. If you like the RidicuList, you'll love the Ri-BLITZ-ulist.
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Filed under: Anderson Cooper • The RidicuList
Sorry Anderson but I loved Wolf's payback RI-BLITZ-ulist... he kinda got right about your giggling, which, bay the way, is very funny!!!
Keep doing what you're doing – is working...
Anderson, I don't really care for Wolf's new eyewear, I mean they are OK, but you do own them and there is no comparison as to who looks better in that style; there are some things you just don't mess with, his previous frames just suit him better, they go along with his hair etc.
Did you mom call you Anderson even when you were a toddler?
anderson can't take criticism
Wolf 1 – Anderson 0
Sorry Anderson-Wolff wins this round. ha ha BTW-love the glasses on both of you!
Ridicu-Blitz sounds better.
Mr. Cooper, good morning from Capestrano, Italy.
You have a rival there. Watch out. I really am beginning to appreciate Mr. Blitzer's sense of humor.
However, I have to admit. You are still Number One.
Pauline N. Fromer
Capestrano, Italy
Wolf Blitzer is uniquely accomplished and a much respected man
Anderson Cooper your giggling is delightful, contagious and so healthy for all of us. Please NEVER STOP!
Wolf you have surpassed Anderson Cooper easily on maintaining composure. I can barely type as I am giggling like Anderson, which I look forward to ever time it happens, hee heee! Love you both in those super sexy frames!
Wolf B. did a great job filling in for Anderson C. As a viewer, I enjoyed it a lot. Wolf got back at Anderson, lol; so funny.
Bev F.
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Anderson Cooper reports on the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado that left 12 dead and over 50 wounded.
I heard maybe wrong that gun sells in Colorado have gone up since the shooting.. Wondered if I heard the news right when the news talked about 600 pounds of ammunition found so I was thinking who delivers that many pounds of amo, UPS, or FED EX.
These guys or women never notice how heavy the package is or how many times they deliver to the same place and maybe glance at what place of business it is from? If they did notice why not anonymous call to the Feds.
We learn from many of the stories we hear and watch solve any problem by killing.
The gun control debate needs to be seriously reactivated; but, strangely I am not hearing many remarks on the tv commentaries about how much the suspect looked like hundreds of characters in combat videos.
When our Forefathers said we had the right to bear arms, I don't think they thought we should all have the right to have automatic weapons like this. They meant a pistol or a hunting rifle. Wow, one of these days you're going to hear about one heck of a neighborhood shootout. What do these people say they need these automatic guns for? Definitely not for hunting. Cops won't have an effect on law enforcement pretty soon. They won't be able to stand up to these people "bearing arms."
What automatic weapons are you talking about? There were no automatic weapons found. They were semi-automatic, that means you have to pull the trigger for each shot. Also, you're interpreting the second amendment when you say " I don't think they thought we should all have the right to have automatic weapons like this. They meant a pistol or a hunting rifle." Let's keep in mind there were no automatic weapons in 1791 when the second amendment was passed, the first automatic weapon called the Gatling gun was designed in 1861 during the U.S. Civil War. Do some research and think for yourself instead of the media and the government doing all your thinking for you.
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government and illegal for the citizenry."
When our forefathers said we had the right to bear arms, they were about to enter into a bloody revolution against a tyrannical government that forced unfair taxes, disarmament, and the prescence of abusive government agents and soldiers upon the people. They didn't encourage the ownership of flintlock rifles and pistols because they were hard to use. They encouraged the ownership and use of these weapons because they were the top of the line firepower of the time. They encouraged every citizen to be armed to be able to assist in repelling vicious attacks on civilian targets.
As far as a pistol or hunting rifle vs. an "assault rifle?" There are many semi-automatic hunting rifles. They're usually chambered in a larger caliber than .223, usually up around .30-06. That will not only be fatal to the first target, but to every target behind them. Pistols are concealable, which is why they usually have a longer waiting period than any semi-automatic rifle. The lethality of either against an unarmored target is not in question. What matters is the potential for their use becoming necessary.
Remember why you have the right to bear arms. It's not for hunting, it's not for sport, it's not for self-defense on the small scale (although that one is the closest reason). The ability to project deadly force is the right upon which all the others depend. You were given the right to bear arms because our forefathers recognized the corruption that could exist in the hearts of some men; the evil that could come to power through deception and lies. We have the right to bear arms so that if the government decides to attack it's citizens, we will be prepared to establish a new government.
How many people think there should now be gun detectors in ALL major gathering spots, ie. Malls, Movie Theatres, Sports Facilities, etc?
I am in total favour of there being gun and weaponry detectors in every public facilities, schools, theatres , malls, etc etc.
Hopefully zero. This is not Nazi Germany, yet.
It's all in how things are looked at.
If this was an Al Qaeda terrorist, then real gun control would be screamed for very very quickly by all Americans.
Because he is a young guy he will be classed as as crazy, nothing will be done with guns/bullets, and the next large gun story may happen (hopefully never) and the apathy will repeat.
Can someone please tell me why a 6 year old girl and a 6 mo. old baby were in the theater for a midnight showing of a movie? Of a violent, loud, movie? At midnight?
Parents need their time off too, a 4 month old baby will generally sleep through anything while being cuddled and rocked. And it's not unusual for a 6 year old girl to be there either, it was a weekend for something the family, and I'm sure herself, were very excited for. Not everyone has these qualms about their kids witnessing violence, it's a natural part of life unfortunately. Better to be educated than ignorant.
My heart is broken for my Colorado family. As a Player fo the Colorado Rockies, I lived in Aurora, CO. That is where my family and I called home! Home! Home!
To our government: you are either part of the problem or part of the solution to these horrific acts. Doing nothing indicates that you are part of the problem. Doing nothing is not the answer. The antiquated 2nd amendment needs to be modified or 'Amended', I'm sure the parents of the victims in Colorado, Tucson, Virgina, Killeen TX, Ft. Hood, Chicago, New Orleans... feel the same way. Being able to protect your home and your family, we all should be good with that. Protect your home, but with an assault rifle, Ak-47. Those guns are ment to stop human hearts from beating. There is no reason why they should be available to whoever wants one and can afford it. As a caring country who professes to love its people, we have to do a better job of protecting them. We can do better than that. To our government, let's not wait until you or your family become victims of one of these tragic act before you act. May all the victims who pass away rest in peace. I'm wishing a speedy and loving recovery to those who were injured. May God surround you all with his love, grace and mercy.
I agree guns are one thing...but heavy duty ARs need to go...!
Heavy duty ARs? You do realize this is the rifle that has kept America winning wars for almost 40 years? Would you be saying the same thing if the rifle was pink and called the "Rainbow fairy wand AR?"
How many more shooting are we going to have in this country before there is some control on how much ammunition a person can buy. I feel every order or purchase needs to be reported and a reason giving for the purchase. I have no problem with people having ther hunting rifels or guns.
What I like to know is how can any yahoo go and buy all the guns and tactical stuff he did and be not set any alarms to any one, FBI ,credit cards, or why would any store would just sell all the he got with any ???? , one saw any the red flags? ? Do you just care about how much I'm making by selling guns , at what point do we care?, And who sold him all the guns and why didn't he call the police ? Very sad ... I so wish they are tracking n looking at what store or place he got the guns n tactical stuff and the fine them n put them out of business ..
He bought stuff on the internet...what country?
Yes that's right, don't blame the idiot who pulled the trigger on these weapons, blame the people who sold them to him. That makes sense. Too bad all those agencies you're pointing the finger at are too busy to care. Those people who sell stuff like that have families and mortgages to pay for just like you do. Now go sit behind you TV some more and enjoy the show.
For one it's not the vendors fault for selling "weapons and the tac gear"; it's completely legal to buy weapons in the U.S. so no there will be no red flags going up because people buy guns every single day. Tac gear you can get anywhere now-a-days, it's not difficult to find. You can't blame anybody but the person who did the act. Therefore saying "I so wish they are tracking n looking at what store or place he got the guns n tactical stuff and the fine them n put them out of business" is not a viable statement, the vendor cannot control what the person does with the weapons purchased or gear purchased. It would be highly unfair to the vendor to fine him and put him out of business; unless the purchases were done "Illegally" then you have a justified fine and recommendation to be put out of business as well as criminal charges.
Question: How does an unemployed medical student afford $20,000 in weapons gear?
That is what I want to know too....and what every news station seems to be just glancing over....and why would he go to such lengths to booby trap his apartment to just tell the police about it when he surrenders to them?? The whole story seems a little weird to me to say the least...
Can you determine if the emergency doors had a alarm, I have noticed here in Florida that all emergency doors here have alarms attached. Not that this could have avoided this tragedy, but may have helped ...
Special Profile To Avert Mass Murder (SPAMM)- Phase I
Gun Shops, Sporting/Police/Military Equipment Companies, should be required, by law, to report, to local authorities, when unusual purchase/requests are made of: tactical weaponry, munitions, armored body ware, etc., including law enforcement identified (ID) personnel; and, further, requiring a legally mandated "waiting-period" before releasing the purchase(s).
The appropriate law enforcement "profiler," should begin an immediate investigation; collecting data which would be relevant in developing a probable-cause profile, to secure the applicable legal warrant, for surveillance of person(s) of interest (POI).
Socio-Psychopathic Profile To Avert Mass Murder (SPAMM) – Phase II
Law enforcement professional determination, when Person(s) of Interest (POI), meets the criteria: Socio-Psychopathic Profile To Avert Mass Murder (SPAMM).
How difficult would it be to implement this process?
When are we going to reallly understand the impact of this constact barrage of insanely violent movies, video games and tv shows?? Now? After 12 more deaths this weekend? In the future when there are more injuries and deaths? Batman, Spiderman, Sopranos, NCIS, Law and Order SVI et al, Dexter, Halo? Really? Do you still believe this is entertainment? Do you believe just because you have a better grasp of what is real and what is not that this crap, and the energy it brings should be floating around? Is it valuable to our society in anyway? What about the actors and studios who attach themselves to this violence for millions of your dollars? Is the salary worth what we have seen repeated with this and other tragedies? Will we take some responsibility as consumers for this??
We have Live Aid, Farm Aid, theme songs, all good causes driven by celebrities trying to do good. Why hasn't anyone in this field taken up the cause of gun control as the amount of death, physical harm/trauma it causes every year is horrific? Is this taboo or simply die to the lack of awareness or just powerful lobbyist.....


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The AVC-LAN is part of the Body Electrical System Control and manages all audio and video related functions. The audio bus is described in Toyota's own words as follows:
AVC-LAN consist of audio visual systems such as the multi-display, navigation ECU, radio and player, stereo component amplifier and gateway ECU. Gateway ECU has communication circuit to correspond with different types of communication data. Different types of communication data can be shared among communication parts after it goes through gateway ECU (System Circuits: AVC-LAN Bus, "Prius Wiring Diagram" 80).
The system itself can be considered a subset of the IEBus Standard, which was delevoped by NEC electronics for automotive use. It is slightly faster than the BEAN Bus and has more data per command, but is still much slower than CAN Bus, since realtime speeds are not required.
- Prep 7uS
- Sync 20uS
- Data 13uS
This is an AVC-LAN message captured using a logic probe.
- Renesas HA12240 Differential Transceiver
- A2240 Package Marking
- CA0008 Package Marking
- CA0013 Package Marking
- NEC uPD6708 IEBus (Inter Equipment Bus) Protocol Controller
- NEC uPD72042 IEBus (Inter Equipment Bus) Protocol Controller
General Purpose
- LM239 comparator (can be used for receiver)
- PCA82C250 CAN Bus (can be used for driver)
- MCP2551 CAN Bus (can be used for driver)
- RS-485 Differential Transceiver ( can be used for both receiver and driver)
- SN75HVD11 +5v
- Marcin Slonicki's Toyota Corolla AVC-Lan MP3 player using:
- ATmega8 is clocked at 14.7456 MHz with an external crystal
- PCA82C250 CAN bus driver is used to drive the IEBus
- LM239 comparator is required on top of the PCA82C250 to read from the IEBus
- Louis Frigon's Toyota Auxiliary Audio Input Enabler using:
- ATmega8 is clocked at 8.00 MHz with the internal RC
- ATmega8's internal analog comparator handles the receive side
- ATmega8's two GPIOs as antagonist output pins perform the bus driver
Documentation Credit
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The News Tribune – Muti conducts 'Requiem' for WWI 100th anniversary
Maestro Riccardo Muti is conducting Verdi's Requiem Mass in northeastern Italy to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I's outbreak in Europe and honor its millions of war dead.
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The Changing Role of the Bank CIO
More than ever before, bank CIOs are integral members of the C-suite. In fact, it seems business acumen is almost as much of a key skill to doing the job well these days as being tech-savvy. And today, CIOs also must help their banks navigate the tumultuous waters of domestic and international regulations. In a world where customer experience and channel integration are paramount, exactly what skills does a bank CIO need in order to succeed? And is having a tech background less important for today's CIOs than for their predecessors?
Bridging the Past, Present and Future
Rob Rubin (pictured to the right), Partner, Head of the Banking Practice, Novarica (New York)
Today's bank CIOs must have one foot in the old world of legacy systems and data centers, and the other foot on the pedal driving innovation within their institutions. Ultimately, successful CIOs will understand how to unwind layers of legacy systems and infrastructure to reduce costs, leverage internal data for new revenue-generating applications, and provide the agility to scale technology services up or down based on business demand.
But there is a tendency to believe the skills of a modern bank CIO mirror those of a technology start-up CTO: leading innovation, managing teams of agile software developers, focusing on the customer experience, and partnering with sales and marketing to deliver on the CEO's direction. While bank CIOs need to possess these skills, they operate in a more complex environment than technology start-up CTOs. For example, they must deal with regulatory requirements and manage high fixed-cost infrastructures.
So for the foreseeable future, bank CIOs must straddle the world of legacy systems and lead innovation of new applications and services. Today's CIO must possess some of the skills of an "old school" CIO, but with two important differences:
• Leading, versus containing, innovation. Many bank CIOs contain innovation by creating rules and restrictions to inhibit how non-IT teams use internal data, networks and technology. Instead, CIOs must lead innovation by anticipating requirements for new applications and services and by enabling access to internal data with the proper controls in place to manage risk and network security.
• Partnering with, versus supporting, sales and marketing. In many banks, the IT department -- led by the CIO -- considers itself an internal support organization. The result? IT relies on its internal "clients" for direction. Partners determine direction together. Therefore, bank CIOs must spend more time in the C-suite planning the future and less time in the data center sustaining the past.
Bryan Yurcan is associate editor for Bank Systems and Technology. He has worked in various editorial capacities for newspapers and magazines for the past 8 years. After beginning his career as a municipal and courts reporter for daily newspapers in upstate New York, Bryan has ... View Full Bio


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After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet search engines" and "all social media websites"—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to "de-index" the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
The case has been a remarkable one. Concerned about counterfeiting, Chanel has filed a joint suit in Nevada against nearly 700 domain names that appear to have nothing in common. When Chanel finds more names, it simply uses the same case and files new requests for more seizures. (A recent November 14 order went after an additional 228 sites; none had a chance to contest the request until after it was approved and the names had been seized.)
How were the sites investigated? For the most recent batch of names, Chanel hired a Nevada investigator to order from three of the 228 sites in question. When the orders arrived, they were reviewed by a Chanel official and declared counterfeit. The other 225 sites were seized based on a Chanel anti-counterfeiting specialist browsing the Web.
That was good enough for Judge Kent Dawson to order the names seized and transferred to GoDaddy, where they would all redirect to a page serving notice of the seizure. In addition, a total ban on search engine indexing was ordered, one which neither Bing nor Google appears to have complied with yet.
Missing from the ruling is any discussion of the Internet's global nature; the judge shows no awareness that the domains in question might not even be registered in this country, for instance, and his ban on search engine and social media indexing apparently extends to the entire world. (And, when applied to US-based companies like Twitter, apparently compels them to censor the links globally rather than only when accessed by people in the US.) Indeed, a cursory search through the list of offending domains turns up poshmoda.ws, a site registered in Germany. The German registrar has not yet complied with the US court order, though most other domain names on the list are .com or .net names and have been seized.
The US government has made similar domain name seizures through Operation In Our Sites, grabbing US-based domains that end in .com and .net even when the sites are located abroad. Such moves by themselves would seem to do little to stop piracy in the long-term; they simply teach would-be miscreants to register future domain names in other countries.
Why wait for SOPA?
Lawyer Venkat Balasubramani, writing about the case yesterday, sums it up eloquently: "Wow."
"I'm sympathetic to the 'whack-a-mole' problem rights owners face, but this relief is just extraordinarily broad and is on shaky procedural grounds," he writes. "I'm not sure how this court can direct a registry to change a domain name's registrar of record or Google to de-list a site, but the court does so anyway. This is probably the most problematic aspect of the court's orders."
Rightsholders have asked Congress to write these provisions (and a few more) into law, and they have pushed for government seizures like those from Operation In Our Sites (which just seized another batch of new domains this last weekend). But as Balasubramani points out, cases like Chanel's show that rightsholders can already get what they want from judges, and they can go after far more sites more quickly than the government.
"The fight against SOPA [the Stop Online Piracy Act] may be a red herring in some ways," he notes, "since IP plaintiffs are fashioning very similar remedies in court irrespective of the legislation. Thus, even if SOPA is defeated, it may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory—opponents may win the battle but may not have gained much as a result."


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Today in the News: 4 dead in St. Louis business shooting
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Four people were shot and killed at a St. Louis business, CNN reported, and police said it appears to be a murder-suicide. The shootings happened at the Cherokee Place Business Incubator, CNN reported. Two men and two women were killed.
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"I thought I had about an hour, and it turned out to be about 20 minutes. I had a pillowcase full of socks, and that's basically all I have." - Paula Warren, who had to flee her home near Colorado Springs, Colo., because of the Black Forest Fire. The fire looks like it may be the worst in the state's history, officials said, and already 360 homes have been destroyed.
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Onlookers stared in disbelief as firefighters rescued two window washers trapped on the 45th floor of a New York building following a scaffolding accident.
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Letters: November/December 2012
Using Duct Testers
In the July/Aug '12 Home Energy there is an article on duct blasters ("Testing Duct Testers," p. 4). There is a sentence in the article that states: "One approach would be to increase the flow and pressure to 50 Pa and divide the result in half for a 25 Pa reading." This isn't quite right, because the flow is not linearly proportional to pressure. For duct leaks, the flow is proportional to the pressure to the power of 0.6. So translating from 50 Pa to 25 Pa, you need to divide by about 1.5 (that is, (50/2f5)^0.6).
Iain Walker
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Author Paul Raymer replies:
Thanks for the input. Always welcome. That must have been a misinterpretation of a process I got elsewhere. Luckily the flows I was referring to are pretty small.
Home Energy on Facebook
Just saw a picture of your magazine cover on Facebook (Sept/Oct '12). A tease on the cover says, "Converting from Steam to Hydronic Heat." As a heating contractor for the last 32 years, I can assure you that steam is hydronic. Hydronic is the use of water in either the liquid or gaseous (steam) form as a heat transfer medium.
Don't mean to be a nitpicker but hydronic heat has only a 7% market share nationwide, mostly in the Northeast and we need all the good press we can get!
Robert C. O'Brien
Technical Heating Company
Mt. Sinai, New York
Editors' note: We shortened the cover line to say "Converting from Steam to Hydronic Heating" because the actual title of the article was a bit too long for the space. The full title of the article is "179 Henry Street—A Case Study in Converting from Two-Pipe Steam to Hydronic Heating" (p. 32).
Author Dan Rieber replies:
What the gentleman says is true. My title assumed of the reader lots of knowledge in the area to understand the difference. Here in New York City, we don't call steam heat hydronic heating (even though technically speaking it is). We refer to hydronic heating as using circulating hot water to heat a building, as opposed to using steam. It's all semantics, but I don't disagree.
Energy Upgrade
I just finished your recent article in Home Energy regarding the California PG&E Energy Upgrade California (EUC) program ("Energy Upgrade California," Sept/Oct '12, p. 6). I really enjoyed the article (along with many in past issues); lots of good information, much of it familiar to me working in the New Hampshire Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES) program. Most of my background is as a building analyst, but I'm finding myself more involved in weatherization program QA/QC.
(1) One thing I don't understand is, Why do utilities design and brand their own program, when the HPwES program is pretty well defined with good rules laid out for operation and monitoring of the program? I'm figuring it's more expensive to design and brand a new program like EUC, than to pick up the HPwES template and run with it. Are there objections to the HPwES program that convince utilities to go with their own program instead? Any thoughts?
(2) Also, I work in the QA section of the New Hampshire HPwES program and I'd like to get some advice from more experienced pros like you on how to conduct post-weatherization inspections. Basically our template is to go out to the home after the contractor has left, interview the client, and review and inspect the list of weatherization items the contractor has invoiced the utility for. I've felt that this approach is lacking the direct discussion with the contractors when a deficiency or a question comes up regarding the install. Would you say that most of your QA's are done while the contractor is still on site, finishing up and testing out? I've felt this would be a worthwhile change to our procedure and would like your input. The business of weatherization QA/QC is of itself a specialized part of the field, but I have found little specific training or even any weblogs dedicated to it. Do you have any articles coming up or know of any training specific on the business of weatherization QA?
Thanks for any help you can provide. I look forward to your future Home Energy articles.
Kevin Hanlon
Horizon Residential Energy Services NH, LLC
Concord, New Hampshire
Author Steve Mann replies:
Regarding your first question, I wasn't there when PG&E (or the other utilities) designed their programs, so I can't explain why they seemingly invented everything from scratch. I do know that some of the sampling requirements in PG&E's program were very similar to Home Performance with Energy Star, so I believe someone in the design process was at least familiar with HPwES. Another factor, which may or may not have come into play in this particular case, is that large organizations generally have a mind of their own, and lots of resources, and feel compelled to do their own thing, regardless of what's already out there and proven, thinking their program will be absolutely, positively better. I know from first-hand experience that when that happens, they often don't have any in-house expertise to point them towards some existing excellent resources.
Based on your description of your background, you're probably much more experienced than I in this type of program. Having said that, here are my observations about the PG&E program relating to your second question.
We started out doing our QA after the fact, with the homeowner, as you describe, then contacting the contractor if there were problems. This created a number of issues:
One more possibly unwelcome intrusion into the household. Some homeowners welcomed the extra eyeballs, some were tired of the whole process and didn't want to be bothered. The latter cases made it tough for us to make sure we had good QA samples.
The follow-up with the contractor generally didn't work out that well, especially if the rebate had already been paid. First, there was no financial incentive to the contractor (in fact, there was a financial disincentive). Threatening to remove them from the program might or might not motivate them. Our success with all but a handful of contractors that were doing seriously substandard work was marginal.
Towards the end of my tenure at Build It Green, we came to the realization that doing the final test-out with the contractor, as you also describe, was a better approach. Not only could we identify problems and fix them immediately, we could use it as a mentoring opportunity. Additionally, it had less of an impact on both the contractor and the homeowner. I'm not sure how much of that approach has ultimately been adopted by Build it Green, but the QA team recognized the value of that approach.
In answer to your final question unfortunately, I don't know of any good training or blogs specifically dedicated to weatherization QA. Perhaps Home Energy's Training Guide has some pointers, or other Home Energy readers have some suggestions. I would post this question to the Home Energy Pros blog (www.homeenergypros.lbl.gov). You might even be able to start a blog there covering this topic.
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Vignettes: Stories of victims in Boston Marathon bombings
The twin bombs at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 170 on Monday. Here are the stories of those killed and some of the injured.
A Boston University graduate student was one of the three people killed in the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the school said Tuesday.
The Shenyang Evening News, a state-run Chinese newspaper, identified her Wednesday as Lu Lingzi.
Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings, a Hong Kong-based broadcaster with ties to the Chinese government, said she was from the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang and a graduate student in statistics.
In a statement late Tuesday afternoon, the school said it was not releasing the name or any other information about the student. The Chinese Foreign Ministry and Consulate General in New York did not identify the victim at the request of the family.
The Boston University statement says the student was with two friends who were watching the race at the finish line, not far from campus. One of the friends, also a graduate student at the university, was injured and is at Boston Medical Center in stable condition.
A team led by Deputy Consul General Ruiming Zhong was in Boston to investigate and assist relatives of the victims, a statement from the consulate said.
Neighbors and friends remembered 8-year-old bombing victim Martin Richard as a vivacious boy who loved to run, climb and play sports like soccer, basketball and baseball.
The boy's father, Bill Richard, released a statement thanking family, friends and strangers for their support following his son's death Monday. Richard's wife, Denise, and the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Jane, also suffered significant injuries in the blasts.
The family was watching Monday's race and had gone to get ice cream before returning to the area near the finish line before the blasts.
Denise Richard works as a librarian at the Neighborhood House Charter School, where Martin was a third-grader and Jane attends first grade. Counselors were being made available to staff and students.
"I just can't get a handle on it," family friend Jack Cunningham said of the boy's death. "In an instant, life changes."
Krystle Campbell was a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford. Her father, 56-year-old William Campbell, described her as "just a very caring, very loving person, and was daddy's little girl."
Campbell had gone to the race with her best friend Karen, whose boyfriend was running in the race, her father said.
"They wanted to take a photograph of him crossing the finish line, but the explosion went off and they were right there," he said. "It's pretty devastating.
The friend suffered a severe leg injury.
Krystle's grandmother told multiple media outlets that the family was initially told Campbell was alive because of a name mix-up.
When her father arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital, however, he learned that his daughter had died.
Krystle's grandmother, Lillian Campbell, said somewhere on the way to the hospital, their names got mixed up.
Lillian Campbell said her son was "devastated" when he found out the truth and almost passed out.
Jeff Bauman Jr., a man pictured in an Associated Press photo from immediately after the blast, lost both his legs as cheered his girlfriend on in the race. He survived the trauma after people rushed him away from the explosion site in a wheelchair.
Rescuers took the 27-year-old victim to Boston Medical Center, but doctors had to amputate his legs because of extensive vascular and bone damage, a Facebook post from his father said Tuesday.
"Unfortunately my son was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," the elder Jeff Bauman wrote.
The son also had to have more surgery later because of fluid in his abdomen. His condition improved later.
"I just can't explain what's wrong with people today to do this to people," the father wrote. "I'm really starting to lose faith in our country."
Brittany Loring was spending Monday, her 29th birthday, cheering on her friend in the Boston Marathon. A day later, she lay in critical condition with injuries to her head, leg and fingers.
"We've had so many calls. Everybody's just upset over it," grandmother Philomena Loring told the Lowell Sun. "I put her on the prayer line at my church."
Loring is simultaneously pursuing degrees in law and business administration at Boston College. She's also a runner, finished 80th in the Boston College MBA 5K on April 6.


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Friday, 11 April 2014 10:16 AM EDT
BEIJING — Beijing artist Liang Kegang returned from a business trip in southern France with well-rested lungs and a small item of protest against his home city's choking pollution: a glass jar of clean, Provence air.
He put it up for auction before a group of about 100 Chinese artists and collectors late last month, and it fetched 5,250 yuan ($860).
"Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar," Liang said in an interview. "This is my way to question China's foul air and express my dissatisfaction."
Liang's work is part of a gust of recent artistic protest — and entrepreneurial gimmickry — reflecting widespread dissatisfaction over air quality in China, where cities often are immersed days on end in harmful pollutants at levels many times what is considered safe by the World Health Organization. The chronic problem has spurred brisk markets for dust masks and home air purifiers.
China's senior leaders have pledged to clean the country's air, partly in response to a citizenry increasingly vocal about environmental issues. But it is a daunting task that must be balanced with demands for economic development and employment crucial to maintaining stability.
In February, a group of 20 Beijing artists wearing dust masks lay on the ground and played dead in front of an altar at the city's Temple of Heaven park in a performance art protest.
In March, independent artists in the southern city of Changsha held a mock funeral for what they imagined would be the death of the city's last citizen because of smog.
"If smog cannot be effectively cleaned up, what it will leave us is death and cities of death," artist Shao Jiajun said.
Liang's contribution is a short, ordinary glass preserves jar with a rubber seal and a flip-top. It has three small, handwritten paper labels: one with the name and coordinates of the French village, Forcalquier, where he closed the jar; one saying "Air in Provence, France" in French; and one with his signature in Chinese and the date — March 29.
The auction closed on the night of March 30, and Chengdu-based artist and entrepreneur Li Yongzheng was the highest bidder.
"I have always been appreciative of Kegang's conceptual art, and this piece was very timely," Li said in a telephone interview. "This past year, whether it was Beijing, Chengdu or most Chinese cities, air pollution has been a serious problem. This piece of work really suits the occasion."
Liang is not the only one to make money from China's air-pollution angst. Entrepreneurs also see the potential, and so do tourism officials in parts of the country where skies are clear.
Chinese President Xi Jinping joked to Guizhou province delegates during last month's National People's Congress that the scenic southwestern province could put its air up for sale. Days later, the province's tourism bureau announced plans to sell canned air as souvenirs for tourists.
"Canned air will force us to stay committed to environmental protection," provincial tourism director Fu Chunying said recently.
In central Henan province, local tourism authorities promoting a resort scooped up mountain air and gave away bags of it in downtown Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. City dwellers greedily inhaled the air, and some said they planned to visit the mountain resort to get more than a lungful.
Chen Guangbiao, a recycling tycoon who briefly made headlines with his abortive plan to purchase The New York Times, has been selling fresh air in cans under his "Good Person" brand.
Want one? They sell for $3 each on China's online bazaar of Taobao.
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Knights' Jones returns to O-Dome
It was a high moment in UCF coach Donnie Jones' career.
Rarely does the student beat the mentor. But Jones, a former assistant under UF coach Billy Donovan from 1994-2007, posted one of the biggest wins of his coaching career when UCF upset Florida 57-54 in December of 2010.
Former Gator forward Chandler Parsons had an off night shooting in his homecoming game at Amway Arena in Orlando, while former UCF guard Marcus Jordan (18 points) played like his dad, Michael Jordan.
"It was a great win for us and our school," Jones said.
Close to two years later, UCF and Florida will meet again today at the O'Connell Center. Parsons is scoring in bunches with the Houston Rockets in the NBA, while Jordan left UCF last April for undisclosed reasons.
And UCF was hit with a one-year postseason ban in both football and men's basketball by the NCAA last August due to the school's alleged involvement with runners Ken Caldwell and Brandon Bender.
"I was surprised," Jones said. "We had a postseason ban on our school and that's hard, it was unfortunate. But we have put that behind us now. It's in the rearview mirror, and we're about what's ahead of us."
An internal report by UCF showed that Jones only had "modest involvement" in knowledge that Caldwell and Bender were improperly trying to recruit players to UCF. Jones was given a three-game suspension by Conference USA. In addition, UCF faces scholarship reductions for basketball (from a maximum of 13 to 11) for the next three seasons.
"I spent a lot of time talking to him," Donovan said. "I really personally thought it was really unfortunate. Donnie is a good, good person in this profession and I think the hardest thing sometimes as human beings you go through is you go through what he's going through and all of a sudden people think that, well he's not doing his business the right way, and that couldn't be anything further from the truth.
"There are a lot bigger problems in college basketball than Donnie Jones, you know? To me, what happened to him does not reflect who he is as a person, a coach, his integrity, his character, what he stands for. And I will stand behind that as long as the day is because that's what he is."
On the court, Jones said UCF is a different team from the one that upset the Gators two seasons ago. UCF is down to eight scholarship players and one scholarship guard, junior Isaiah Sykes. Jones said the lack of depth caught up to UCF in its 75-61 loss to Middle Tennessee State on Tuesday night.
"We're trying to find ways to work through that and get better," Jones said.
One player who opted to return to UCF following the sanctions was senior center Keith Clanton. The 6-foot-9 big man had a big game against Florida two seasons ago, finishing with 12 points and 9 rebounds.
"To watch his growth and development has been tremendous," Jones said. "He had a chance to go to some big-name schools, but he loves his mom. He wants to stay close to home and play in front of her. He has an opportunity to finish up here at UCF and continue to pursue his dreams."
Jones said that even with the postseason ban, UCF still has plenty to play for this season. The Knights want to build positive momentum for its move from Conference USA to the Big East in 2013-14.
"The good thing is that the majority of guys are young and come back next season," Jones said. "We still have a lot to play for. We can win our conference. So those are things that we can focus on, the things that we can control."
G Kenny Boynton 6-2 Sr. 14.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg
G Mike Rosario 6-3 Sr. 12.8 ppg, 3.0 apg
F Will Yeguete 6-7 Jr. 7.5 ppg, 8.5 rpg
F Erik Murphy 6-10 Sr. 13.8 ppg, 4.5 rpg
C Patric Young 6-9 Jr. 10.5 ppg, 8.0 rpg
G Rod Days 6-6 So. 3.3 ppg, 1.8 rpg
G Isaiah Sykes 6-5 Jr. 17.5 ppg, 5.0 rpg
F Kasey Wilson 6-7 So. 9.5 ppg, 4.8 rpg
F Tristan Spurlock 6-7 Sr. 13.5 ppg, 5.0 rpg
F Keith Clanton 6-9 Sr. 17.0 ppg, 11.8 rpg
Notes: Florida has given up 45 points or less in three of four games this season. … Junior center Patric Young recorded a career-high 6 blocked shots in UF's 58-40 win over Savannah State. Young is averaging 3.0 blocks per game this season. … Junior forward Casey Prather is expected to return after sitting out UF's first four games with post-concussion symptoms. … Florida is 35 for 57 from the free-throw line (61.4 percent) over its last two games. … UCF is coached by Donnie Jones, a former assistant under Florida coach Billy Donovan at Marshall and UF from 1994-2007. … Donovan is 9-2 all-time when facing former assistants who worked under him. … UCF comes into the game shooting 48.7 percent from the field and 32.7 from the free throw line.
Who: No. 7 Florida Gators (4-0) vs. UCF Knights (3-1) When: 4 p.m. Where: O'Connell Center, Gainesville Gainesville TV:Sun Sports Gainesville radio:AM-850, 103.7 FM


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Some first-time chip offenders known as the 'BBQ chip bandits' snack their way on to the RidicuList.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
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The officer finally breaking down and laughing at the end clearly indicates they were having fun with it. Giving the tough job they face, I'm sure they enjoyed this one. It made me laugh.
Great bit on the chips. Here in Victoria/Saanich, we have so little crime compared to the rest of the continent, that a story like this one is great filler for a slow news day. Kudos to the Saanich police, who, in general, have a great attitude and a positive face in the community!!!
the 2 girls wrote an apology letter and the charges were dropped... all ends well.
I love Anderson Copper. You can so tell this officer thinks this is a joke and held in the laughter until the end. lol.
I love my country. Great sense of humour AND we know a good chip when we taste one.
I for one, am ashamed to see this story. As a Canadian, I will tell you, chips are NOT our past time. Hockey is. Hockey and poutine. hmmm squeaky cheese curds on hot french fries smothered in thick, delicious brown sauce (no, it's not called gravy!).
Anderson you do realize this was just as funny for the newscaster to make as it was for everyone to watch.
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75 dead, 459 injured in China earthquake
14 people still missing after shallow quake in rural Gansu province
A strong earthquake that shook an arid, hilly farming area in northwest China sparked landslides and destroyed or damaged thousands of brick-and-mud homes Monday, killing at least 75 people and injuring more than 450, the government said.
The quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province toppled brick walls and telephone lines, shattered mud-and-tile-roofed houses and sent cascades of dirt and rock down hillsides that blocked roads and slowed rescue efforts by crews trying to reach remote areas.
Hospitals set up aid stations in parking lots to accommodate large numbers of injured, while hundreds of paramilitary People's Armed Police fanned out to search for victims in the region of terraced farmland where the quake struck about 1,200 kilometres west of Beijing.
"I saw the bulb hanging from the ceiling start swinging wildly around. I woke my two friends and we ran into the bathroom to hide," said arts student Li Jingui, 21, who was on the fourth floor of a school dormitory in Dingxi when the shaking started.
"After the strongest tremors were over, we were worried that there would be aftershocks so we packed our stuff and ran out into a large clearing," Li said in a telephone interview.
In addition to the 75 confirmed dead, there were 14 people missing and 459 injured, the central government's China Earthquake Administration said.
Shoddy construction partly to blame
Damage was worst in Min county in Dingxi's rural southern portion, where scores of homes were damaged and telephone and electricity services knocked out, Dingxi Mayor Tang Xiaoming told state broadcaster CCTV. All but three of the deaths, all the missing and most of the injured were in Min, a likely result of shoddy construction.
Residents said the shaking lasted about one minute, but wasn't strong enough to cause major damage in urban areas, where buildings are more solidly built.
"You could see the chandeliers wobble and the windows vibrating and making noise, but there aren't any cracks in the walls. Shop assistants all poured out onto the streets when the shaking began," said a front desk clerk at the Wuyang Hotel in the Zhang County seat about 40 kilometers from the epicentre. The clerk, surnamed Bao, refrained from identifying herself further, as is common among many Chinese.
Tremors were felt in the provincial capital of Lanzhou 177 kilometers north and as far away as Xi'an, 400 kilometres to the east.
Rock slides slow rescue
The government's earthquake monitoring centre said the initial quake at 7:45 a.m. (23:45 GMT Sunday) was magnitude-6.6 and subsequent tremors included a magnitude-5.6.
The quake was shallow, which can be more destructive. The centre said it struck about 20 kilometres beneath the surface while the Gansu provincial earthquake administration said it was just six kilometres deep. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the initial quake as 5.9 and the depth at 10 kilometres.
Initial measurements of an earthquake can vary widely, especially if different monitoring equipment is used.
Su Wei, leader of a 120-member rescue team from the paramilitary People's Armed Police, told state broadcaster CCTV that they were on their way to the epicentre, but progress was being slowed by mud and rock slides blocking the road.
The Chinese Red Cross said it was shipping 200 tents, 1,000 sets of household items, and 2,000 jackets to the area and sending teams from both Lanzhou and Beijing to help with relief work and assess further needs.
More than 14,000 homes without power
Heavy rain is expected in the area later in the week, raising the need for shelter and increasing the chance of further landslides.
Almost 2,000 homes were either destroyed or heavily damaged, with thousands more suffering partial damage, according to the Dingxi government website. It said 14,066 households were without power, and five county and township roads had been cut.
Gansu province, a region of mountains, desert and pastureland with a population of 26 million, is one of China's more lightly populated provinces, although the New Jersey-sized area of Dingxi has a greater concentration of farms in rolling hills terraced for crops and fruit trees. Dingxi has a total population of about 2.7 million.
China's worst earthquake in recent years was a 7.9-magnitude temblor that struck the southwestern province of Sichuan in 2008, leaving 90,000 people dead or missing.


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Anderson Cooper puts Stephen Colbert on notice for showing the "third eagle of the apocalypse" after he was on the RidicuList months ago.
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Attackers exploited a previously unknown and currently unpatched security bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to surreptitiously install malware on the computers of federal government workers involved in nuclear weapons research, researchers said Friday.
The attack code appears to have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in IE version 8 when running on Windows XP, researchers from security firm Invincea said in a blog post. The researchers have received reports that IE running on Windows 7 is susceptible to the same exploit but have not been able to independently confirm that. Versions 6 and 7 of the Microsoft browser don't appear to be vulnerable.
Update: In an advisory published a couple hours after this article went live, Microsoft confirmed a code-execution vulnerability in IE8. Versions 6, 7, 9, and 10 of the browser are immune to the exploit. People using IE8 should upgrade to versions 9 or 10, if at all possible. Those who are unable to move away from version 8 should take the following mitigations:
- Set Internet and local intranet security zone settings to "High" to block ActiveX Controls and Active Scripting in these zones
This will help prevent exploitation but may affect usability; therefore, trusted sites should be added to the Internet Explorer Trusted Sites zone to minimize disruption.
- Configure Internet Explorer to prompt before running Active Scripting or to disable Active Scripting in the Internet and local intranet security zones
This will help prevent exploitation but can affect usability, so trusted sites should be added to the Internet Explorer Trusted Sites zone to minimize disruption.
The attack was triggered by a US Department of Labor website that was compromised to redirect visitors to a series of intermediary addresses that ultimately exploited the vulnerability, according to Invincea. The exploit caused vulnerable Windows machines to be compromised by "Poison Ivy," a notorious backdoor trojan that had been modified so it was detected by only two of 46 major antivirus programs in the hours immediately following the attack. The specific webpages that were hacked dealt with illnesses suffered by employees and contractors developing atomic weapons for the Department of Energy, the blog post said, citing this report from NextGov. That's consistent with so-called "watering hole" attacks, in which employees of a targeted organization are infected by planting malware on the sites they're known to frequent.
"The target of this attack appears to be employees of the Dept of Energy that likely work in nuclear weapons research," Invincea researchers wrote in a separate report published Wednesday. The report went on to cite this technical analysis from security firm AlienVault. It found indicators in the command servers Poison Ivy contacted that the attack was carried out by "DeepPanda," a group of hackers believed to be located in China and carry out espionage attacks on other countries.
Initial reports about the Department of Labor website compromise said an older IE vulnerability that Microsoft patched in January had been exploited. It was only in Friday's report that Invincea said this assessment is incorrect.
"For non-Invincea users, there are no known mitigations for this exploit that is currently in the wild," Friday's report warned. "For users of IE8, there is no patch currently available and with this exploit being out in the wild, the potential risk for damage is high."
As published on http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/internet-explorer-zero-day-exploit-targets-nuclear-weapons-researchers/


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How to find the right vet for your pet
To help make sure your pet receives high quality medical care, several veterinarians offer advice on how to find the right vet for your pet.
- Ask for recommendations. "A good way to begin your search for a high quality veterinary practice is to ask for recommendations from friends and family," says Dr. Meredith Hope of Brown Mackie College - Louisville. "Word of mouth from people with experience as a client can be valuable. You can also read online reviews and look at veterinary websites for information on specific doctors and practices."
Dr. Barry Kellogg of the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association suggests paring down your list of options by looking for a practice that is certified by American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA).
- Visit the practice. "Practices grow by developing relationships that show you are valued as a client," says Hope. The temperament and qualifications of the overall staff say a lot about the practice. "Staff members trained as registered veterinary technicians are a good sign of quality care," continues Hope. "The training provides clinical competence and technical knowledge." This can go a long way in easing your mind about the people who will play a major role in your pet's care.
- Doctor credentials. One of the first things many people notice about the veterinarian is his or her bedside manner. Are you comfortable talking to and listening to this person? Keep in mind you are looking for a medical expert; you want to weigh more than personality. "How do you know what the vet knows?" asks Kellogg. "Technical knowledge and educational status aren't easy to judge from the outside. Your decision should come from a blend of interpersonal relationship and educational knowledge and credentials." Credentials are typically displayed on an office wall in the form of a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree.
- Accessibility matters. In addition to office visits, how accessible is the veterinarian or a professionally trained staff member to answer your questions on the phone? "If a practice is too busy to respond, you may want to rethink your decision," says Kellogg. "You want access to guidance when you have a question about your pet. As a client, you deserve personal service and attention. Some practices now use email as a forum to answer questions."
- Overnight essentials. In case your pet ever requires surgery and an overnight stay at the veterinarian's office, it's a good idea to ask up front about overnight care. "Some practices have an attendant on site throughout the night," Hope says. "Others may assign a staff member to check in periodically. If there is no night staff, many will transfer the patient to a local ER veterinary clinic for overnight monitoring." Each pet owner must decide what seems right for each pet. "Animals need some kind of supervision, even after a simple spay procedure," says Kellogg. "The larger multi-doctor practices may be more available to staff the facility at night, sharing off-hour coverage."
- No one knows your pet better than you do. "Veterinary care involves give and take between you, the doctor and the staff. Most pet owners want to make their own decisions about their pets with appropriate guidance from the practice," says Kellogg. "I feel a veterinarian's responsibility is to present treatment alternatives objectively and let the individual decide how to proceed."
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